Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My first reaction was to get someone from the British Transport Police , but the door of their office was locked . |
| 2 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 3 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 4 | His first thought was to do something to the Volkswagen Passat . |
| 5 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 6 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 7 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 8 | He pulled Carla into his arms and closed his eyes , feeling a vast , directionless violence , as if his task were to kill everyone in the world and the problem was how to start . |